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• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  exploring campus, hanging out with friends, and getting food (shoutout to the ... 2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do a dual blog post about our CPW experiences - hers as an excited

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... 've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on ... the whole ordeal was the 25 hour odyssey it took to get from my hotel ... maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... don't want to not get lotteried into dorm X and set yourself up for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... song begins, arrows begin moving from the bottom of the screen to the top, and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  they have there. One of the best things about my job is I get to travel ... Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  getting an education here, it was equally important to build good habits ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  [email protected] to see if you are eligible to join us in the fall or get ... opportunity to receive guidance and support from great role models, and I wanted to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... writing and being nice to people that I don't know). I don't even get carded ... decided to keep it for this month. Except for getting food caught in it, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited ... getting something right is hard.  It's not enough just to care about excellence.  You need to care deeply about getting something right and also

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  my decision was. My dad didn't force me to go to MIT, don't get me ... school. Nothing to get depressed over, really. I guess it's clear that ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... also force you to go to our beautiful gym and pool, and get your mind off ... You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... topic. Then I went home, presumably to get some sleep but actually to grab ... guys who didn't live in the dorm but nevertheless wanted to get to know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  semester, explore boston, get ready to UROP, and train for track season ... ’ for the 1st time in college, but after that i had to get on larger poles ... performing so well that i had to get out bigger poles, so yay! for fun, i

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  ;feature=youtu.be Freshman DTYD Hacks: Each year, freshman class gets to promote the party with ... meeting to decide shirt names, and it’s a lot of fun since you get to learn ... life gets tiring), I chose Burton-Conner. I resolved to move into BC

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  . Stress over whether or not I was doing enough to get into graduate school ... teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... feel like I need to push myself harder and harder to get into a good

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024